Word: overtness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crossover appeal, his scores are far from cheap tunesmithery. In addition to their obvious debt to rock, Superstar, Evita and Cats also bristle with some hair-raising atonal passages, while Phantom's glorious credo, The Music of the Night, contains one of Lloyd Webber's most daring dissonant endings. Overt classical references abound: Cats has a fugue, the Dance section of Song & Dance is an extended set of variations on Paganini's 24th Caprice, and Phantom boasts an intricate sextet called Prima Donna that is reminiscent of Donizetti. (Song & Dance played for 13 months in New York City...
Perkins' one act of overt protest against Pretoria has been to attend a Cape Town church service convened to denounce a ban on appeals for the release of detainees, many of them children, held without charge for security reasons. Invited with other envoys by the foreign ministry to a stern lecture on the need for law-and-order, the ambassador, as usual, had no comment. As with his silence on last week's article about South Africa's future, he had already made his statement...
Lewis said the senator believes there are clear distinctions between the civil rights of "those groups who have endured a long history of overt discrimination in housing and emplyment because of their race, religion, sex or handicap," and those who face problems because of their sexual orientation...
Cocteau wove overt references to popular culture into his adaptation of the classic. Hints of thrillers, dime romances and detective films abound in the tale of the poet Orpheus's (Jim May) descent into Hades and return with his bride Eurydice (Magdalena Hernandez). Prascak, perhaps true to Cocteau's intentions, begins the play with a Madonna medley and transforms Death (Jennifer Lyn Bader) into a lovely Material Girl in white...
...threats to academic freedom and freedom of speech are overt, a la the rantings of Accuracy in Academia and other latter-day McCarthyites. In a report released last week, two Harvard officials make clear that the restrictions placed by the Reagan Administration on the free flow of information subtly have eroded "democratic values, freedom of speech, and the openness of U.S. society...